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I am so tired of everyone telling me to take care of myself. How do you define how you take care of yourself? I don’t know how to take care of myself. I know how to live my life.
My father passed away and he always took care of me. My mom, my brother - they continue to take care of me. My significant other takes care of me.
I also take care of him. I take care of clients at work who struggle and I take care of my coworkers and colleagues who need me. I take care of people Ive known for 15 years or 15 minutes.
What part of my life says “I don’t take are of myself” - is there something magical I can do to be better? What is the concept of self-care? I like getting tattoos, I like to drink alcohol, I like to have 4 cups of black coffee in the morning. Is that self care?
I love to read books - but I don’t have time to read books or want to read books every single day. Does that mean I don’t take care of myself every day? Why do I feel like I have to online search “how to take care of myself?” I love who I am. Is that enough????
What a joke
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“There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you. And there are others who will understand — without you even speaking a word.”
— Yasmin Mogahed
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“I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not a virtue. It was a disguise.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anais Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
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“To have someone understand your mind is a different kind of intimacy.”
— Unknown
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I always write. When i’m feeling feelings I cannot speak, I write. I don’t journal as much as I used to, but I find ways to speak to me directly.
Do you ever write and freak out? Like, you and reading the words you’re rite and you for. even remember writing these words or the emotions you felt when you wrote them? How terrifying is that feeling. I feel like an imposter in my body and my soul is taking a drive and I am not the driver.
How does normalcy come so easily to others? I feel like I don’t know who I am.
